Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 3
The Rabbit can't get in at the door, so he tries the window; Alice snatches at the air, hears a shriek and breaking glass, and guesses he has fallen into a cucumber-frame.
Who acts: Rabbit, Alice · What happens: not get in, try, snatch, hear, break, guess · To what, where: door, window, air, shriek, cucumber frame · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tries | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 tries | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tries | nsubj |
| 13 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tries | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 snatches | punct |
| 17 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 snatches | nsubj |
| 18 | snatches | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tries | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 air | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 air | det |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 snatches | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hears | punct |
| 23 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 snatches | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shriek | det |
| 25 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hears | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 breaking | cc |
| 27 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 hears | conj |
| 28 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shriek | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 guesses | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 guesses | cc |
| 31 | guesses | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hears | conj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fallen | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 fallen | aux |
| 34 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 guesses | ccomp |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 frame | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 frame | det |
| 37 | cucumber | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 frame | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 cucumber | punct |
| 39 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fallen | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in | can | the Rabbit | the door | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | try | present | Rabbit | the window | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | snatch | present | Alice | the air | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hear | present | Alice not said here | a shriek and glass | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shriek=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | break | gerund | Alice not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | guess | present | Alice not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | fall | present · perfect | Rabbit | into a cucumber frame result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into frame=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:3.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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